Here is the latest Coffee & Pearls:
Scroll down to read it as a blog post!
I’m still not up to typing these whole episodes up but here are some bullet points of what I say!
- My kids only watch a movie on Sundays, no other shows/movies during the week.
- They get no iPad time. We allowed them to do education games for a year or two but then quickly realized that there wasn’t my education happening but rather, they are mostly just games.
- My kids have an old iPhone and have access to Pandora to play a few music stations and Audible/Overdrive apps to listen to audio books.
Hi Sterling, thank you for sharing how your family limits screen time. I am struggling with this in my house, because my husband and I have very different views on the value of screen time. My husband is the oldest of seven and grew up with unrestricted screen time. We visit his family often and the TV is always on. It is even on when no one is home. He loves video games, Netflix, and TV. He says that digital media is just as good as reading books. He already talks about playing video games with our 7 month old when she is older, and when I give him our daughter to hold he often takes her to the couch and turns on the TV to watch together. How would you suggest I approach limiting screen time for our children when my husband is highly invested in the idea that screen time is okay or good for you? He’s so emotionally invested. He has many happy memories of playing video games with his siblings and thinks our kids could have happy memories like that too.